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Wheers the stiks and farwood, Vern? I thunk we'se has us herein a Heritic.
I belong to a couple of web forums, John. No question they have some nice
features, but old dogs, new trick. I find I spend more time on this form -
not certain its because it takes longer to read through all the stuff
because we lack some of the features, you mentioned - or I just like the
manner of exchange and folks better here.
But, in any case, I remember when this list was started by Marv as a
"alternative" list for the rotary fliers and I guess in my opinion it seems
to work fine for the most part. I think the "more advanced web types"
might find it somewhat crude and constrained, but for most of us it does the
job. I really would not like to see the "rotary community" divided again -
but, that's just my view on the topic.
Okkk, Vernn - brung out the torch! I's got thu wood stack'n around the
varmit.
Ed A
----- Original Message -----
From: "John Slade" <sladerj@bellsouth.net>
To: "Rotary motors in aircraft" <flyrotary@lancaironline.net>
Sent: Saturday, February 12, 2005 9:30 PM
Subject: [FlyRotary] Re: Bandwidth/Netiquitte Issue.. "reply to all"
> All,
> > I am speaking only for myself, but I archive every single post and see
> > very little reason to have duplicates of ANY post
> You're not alone. I'm sure most of us keep a local copy of every single
> post.
> Like me, you probably rarely look at it because it isn't easy to find
stuff.
> What a waste!
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> >Every time Paul Conner posts, we get some sort of attachment that says
> there's no virus.
> As Rusty says, this is reason 473 why mail lists are the Lycosaurus of
> electronic communication.
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> >web forums are so vastly superior to mail lists in this day and age.
> Sorry. I can't pass up an opportunity like this. Here we are, struggling
> with unwanted attachments and extra copies, fighting html, top or bottom
> posting, archiving our own copies, and emailing our email addresses to
> hundreds of virus vulnerable computers 50 times a day. Are we all nuts?
> There's good technology out there. Let's use it.
>
> I help manage the canard forum at http://canardaviationforum.dmt.net
> The majority of members are rotary enthusiasts. The forum is running on a
> member's business server and he maintains it for free. There's lots of
free
> space. While the main forum is for pilots who fly the "Wright" way, it's
> trivial to add a section dedicated to Fly-Rotary. I just did. It can be
> found at http://canardaviationforum.dmt.net/forumdisplay.php?f=59
>
> Now let me be plain - I read this mail list 4 times a day or more, and I
> find the information and the camaraderie here very very valuable. I also
> read the canard forum and the Cozy list. This means I have to sift through
a
> bunch of irrelevant text to be sure I don't miss anything important. A few
> decades ago, around the time they came out with the 2nd gen 13B, someone
> invented a concept called "Threads". They can be made sticky, moved,
updated
> and organized hierarchically for easy access. You can edit/correct your
> posts (what a concept!) and set it up so you get an email when a thread
> you're interested in gets a posting. The WIKI idea, while commendable, is
a
> poor representation of 1/10 of the features of a forum. Come on, guys -
> let's do it right, and all in one place!
>
> The last thing I want to do is cause trouble, get excommunicated for
heresy,
> or split up this wonderful group, but I just can't see a valid reason to
> keep struggling with old technology. We don't do it with our airplanes.
Why
> do it with our computers? The perfect solution, in my humble opinion,
would
> be for everyone reading this message to log into the above forum address,
> create an ID, and start communicating effectively from here on.
>
> Anyone with me?
>
> John (running and ducking for cover)
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> >> Homepage: http://www.flyrotary.com/
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